What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months?
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I disagree with the question.…I think too many people think that way. They think that getting something is going to improve their life. I challenge anybody who thinks that way, which almost everybody does, to try to flip it on yourself and look around you and think, “What things could I get rid of around me here that would positively influence my life?”

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Soman Chainani Novelist and screenwriter; author of The School for Good and Evil
This is easy. It’s called Mother Dirt. It clears your skin, and it cost $49.00. My skin was a hot mess for most of my adolescence and into my 20’s.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 6 February 2018 source ↗
Whitney Wolfe Herd Founder and chief executive of Bumble
That’s a great question. Coconut oil. ... Everything. You can take a bath with it. You can put it in a smoothie. You can cook vegetables with it. You can actually put it on your skin. I think coconut oil is a cheap miracle buy.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 26 June 2018 source ↗
Bill Gurley General partner at Benchmark Capital
I have a very peculiar answer. Really, really amazing nail clippers. Pay 50 bucks for them, or something. It could change your life, I promise.
Recorded Bill Gurley, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 20 July 2023 source ↗
Debbie Millman Designer; host of Design Matters; founder of the SVA branding programme
Well, the purchase that has influenced me over the last six months is the Apple pencil. I do so much of my artwork by hand and now there is a device that draws and feels like a real pencil that I can use electronically. It’s changed the way I work.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 26 June 2018 source ↗

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